A nice hot sunny day, t-shirt and shorts walking weather.

Back to mid-20s today so a t-shirt walk.

Comfortable walking today. Cloudy but not raining.

The Tesco Express I always walk past has now closed until November. Not sure if its for construction or something more serious….

Went a different route for a change and added an extra km onto the distance. Grey skies but no rain

Decided to test the time it takes to walk from the prospective new house to the nearest Piccadilly Line station and see if that’s any different to walking to the nearest rail station.

Turns out it takes 15 minutes using two different walking routes to get there, which is about the same time it takes to get to the rail station. The only difference is that the rail station is in Zone 4 and the underground station is in Zone 5.

A single from the Zone 5 station costs £4.70 peak, £3.10 off peak.

A single from the Zone 4 rail station costs £6.00 peak, £4,70 off peak — so it costs MORE to start my journey FURTHER into London. So why do I do it?

Well, if I cap the journey for the week, I pay a 1-4 weekly travelcard, and not a 1-5 weekly travelcard. Plus, the daily cap for a 1-4 is £10.40, and I’ll hit that with two journeys, versus the 1-5 cap of £12.30

Decided to test the time and distance of walking from my local train station to the (potentially) new house, then walk back. Total distance for the loop was 3km, which about the same distance as my normal short walking loop, so that’s okay.

Back to being colder and grey again. Short lap, didn’t get caught in any rain this time.

Back to being colder and grey again. Short lap, and drizzling all the way.

Decided to go a different route today, to go past a house I might be buying.

Slightly narrow roads, and a lot quieter, but means less likelihood of my car getting wrecked, since there’s also a parking area in front of the house. Someone would _really_ have to try to wreck my car using that setup — they would have to go through a brick wall and other cars to wreck my car with this setup. Also, since this is a house not a flat, I could potentially get a plugin hybrid or full electric in future and get a charge point installed for around £500. But that’s assuming my Yaris gets wrecked, which hopefully it won’t anytime soon…. :)